Gabbard is not far-left. Even when she was a Democrat she was rubbing elbows with Hindu nationalists and Steve Bannon.

Well you're the one who brought it up...

She released this information (which had already been disclosed elsewhere) on her way out the door, so I would not assume that this release was wanted or approved by the Trump administration.

Maybe English isn't your first language, but these are basically synonyms.

Maybe English is also not your first language, because they are not synonyms

That's an extremely broad statement to make "assuredly". I'd wager you haven't figured environmental consequences into your calculation. All the toxic waste from production is being routed to the developing world.

Ok what's the practical difference? The layoffs are still happening.

If "the latter hypothesis" of parent commenter was that "AI will replace ~80% of white-collar jobs", then that hypothesis clearly not supported by the current layoffs. AI isn't replacing workers, AI just happens to be an easy excuse for it. Could as well have been "COVID" or "tariffs" or "the economy" or "the end of Zero interest-rate policy"

Why not? I have literally got several first hand examples where people are fired because of how good the AI models became. Why do you find that questionable?

Intriguing. You should notify Narayanan and Kapoor so they can update their post with your counter-example :)

Which is why it's so bizarre that CDs are generally less dynamic than vinyl. There's no technical reason that should be the case.

CDs were most commonly played in cars on the loud highway

Says who? I remember having one of those cassette adapters that was a tape that you'd stick in the tape drive, and you'd attach to the headphone jack of a portable CD player. Maybe I was poor, but cars had cassettes most of my youth, while people had CD players at home.

Exactly cd players in cars didn’t become common until the 2000s when anti skip became common place.

That's a good point. CD mastering was very dynamic until around the mid-90s, and that probably correlates with CD players becoming a standard option in cars.

And the first CD player I saw in a car had a button to apply dynamic range compression.

You know, there are more countries than the US.

Huh? CDs are a poor fit in cars to the point that the ten disc changer in the trunk was a thing. To avoid the inevitable damage from swapping them.

Now, yes, but in the 90s/00s the alternative to CDs was cassette tapes, which were both inferior audio quality and took up more space. CD players in cars were a very desirable feature back then.

At my peak in the mid-00s I remember counting and finding I had just over 500 CDs in my car, almost all of which were MP3s burnt to playable CD-Rs laying in the passenger seat... the good old days. Nice thing about using CD-Rs is you didn't have to care about them getting scratched, either.

Cassettes were great, though. They could pile up, unprotected, in the center console or find their way under the seat and be fine. That pile might have everything from your mom's Vivaldi tape to the MC5 bootleg you got from your older brother.

Sick of listening to whatever's in the deck right now?

Just rummage through them without looking using the gear-shift hand and hold one up in an instant without taking eyes very far off the road. Upon finding one that's Good Enough For Right Now: Pop the old one out of the tape player with a ker-chunk and a blast of radio noise, and then quickly plunge its replacement into the empty hole -- all with muscle memory.

Frozen mist on the windshield on a cold morning? There's a cassette-shaped ice scraper right there in the dash. Take it out, use it to scrape the ice off the window, and put it back in. It still works.

CD-Rs helped a ton and I deliberately avoided CDs in cars until I was able to make CDs cheaply at home. But they were still delicate things in ways that tapes never were, they still skipped in ways that tapes never did, and their sonic improvements weren't very meaningful over the wind and road noise with the factory stereo of a malaise-era Chevrolet.

> and be fine.

lolno those things were a finicky failure prone analog nightmare.

Compared to what? CDs that would skip on movement or scratch and skip worse? CD-R that would delaminate? Vinyl records? The continuous-loop abomination of 8-track?

Compact cassette tapes were profoundly robust compared to everything else.

alternatively, there was such a market desire for CDs in the car that the ten disc changer in the trunk was a thing.

They were never good in the car, merely tolerable without option. Early on they skipped, and they were always bigger than cassettes, more expensive, and significantly more fragile. The changer made them very expensive to boot.

Why most CD listening was done in the home, and cassettes held on for longer than expected.

Right? Why didn't we think to just use Android Auto or Carplay in the 90s/2000s. We were all such idiots back then.

You might find it lame, but jazz has the highest share of physical media sales in the US

https://www.statista.com/chart/32863/genres-with-the-highest...

I don't know which genre they would divide the Blues into, but whenever I discover a new (to me) blues group, I really struggle to find CDs for them.

Physical media is dying, so that's a strange conclusion to draw.

I mean you literally just acknowledged evidence that it WASN'T for artistic effect.

I dunno if you’ve listened to these records in question but it’s very, very obviously for artistic effect. They’ve discussed it in interviews and stuff. Low wasn’t looking to get radio play with fractured collages of distorted noise. The “vinyl can’t reliably reproduce these waveforms” explanation someone else suggested makes the most sense.

Artists usually aren't involved at the mastering stage, at that point the music is already recorded and mixed.

That's just not true. I just had my band's album mastered; we weren't in the room or anything but the mastering engineer asked us directly questions about how we wanted the record to sound and we got final approval on it.

Why the snark? Who expects high quality audio from AM radio?

i didn't read that as snark. they're just saying compressors were/are used to maximize the broadcast range of a source over AM radio. without them, the broadcast range is shorter, which means fewer people hear the ads on the radio show, which means fewer dollars for the radio station producing or broadcasting the show.

Sure, but that has nothing to do with the mastering of physical media, and is completely irrelevant to the discussion.

I don't know where you're getting this. For rock/pop music, it's as bad as it's ever been.

Yep many current pop songs are commonly mastered at around -8 LUFS even peaking at -5 LUFS which is quite loud.